Crossword

Across

 1 Be sure of genuinely losing heart (4)

 3 Excellent and mostly vibrant cloth (6)

 9 Chose the wrong ham (7)

10 Studies English, being thick (5)

11 Diary, which isn’t one of those Kindle types! (8)

12 ‘It’s over, shorty’ (3)

14 Acceptance of American time (5)

16 Change the final word (German)

18 Shelter returning swimmer (3)

19 Relative beheads English composer, resulting in another (8)

22 Albion Rovers, Everton, Norwich, Arsenal – all play here! (5)

23 Girl reheats curry (7)

24 He is to be included in Cameron’s ideology (6)

25 … otherwise I will leave girl (4)